Holding the human line as cyborgs ⊗ A framework for action
No.405 — Big Tech’s anti-labor playbook ⊗ Evidence for the future? ⊗ Māori data sovereignty ⊗ Superhot rock holds the energy of the future ⊗ Britain tries a new solution: beavers
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The skeleton library ⊗ Could humans become “Sun-eaters”?
No.404 — Le mal du siècle, bis ⊗ AI Resist List and the Luddite Lab ⊗ Microcosm Industries ⊗ Narrative inheritance ⊗ Books in an age of AI ⊗ The near-term future of climate adaptation ⊗ The Neanderthal dentist
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Building a solidarity ecosystem for AI ⊗ Dawn of the electric world order
No.403 — Being harvested by the future ⊗ The impact of AI-generated text ⊗ Paris staged a huge stress test for extreme heat ⊗ Mesmerizing cat-5 super typhoon
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Anti-dystopia ⊗ Our horizon of possibilities
No.402 — AI learns language from skewed sources ⊗ We can always do something about the future ⊗ The hidden Sungemite archipelago ⊗ Where Europe’s population is shrinking ⊗ Rogue One: The Andor Cut
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Hopkins on the power of imagination ⊗ Feral thought experiments
No.401 — Why are London’s top galleries full of laptops? ⊗ This is how we get moral AI companies ⊗ Space to Breathe ⊗ The zero-days are numbered ⊗ A complete guide to the AMOC ⊗ The GDT Nature Photographer of the Year
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Scenario planning for the “jobless future” ⊗ Software brains & statistical engines
No.400 — Extrapolated futures archive ⊗ The dissonance is expanding ⊗ South Korea to spur a renewables revolution ⊗ Eye contact with a humpback whale
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Civilizational optionality ⊗ The social edge of intelligence
No.399 — The term “AGI” is almost useless at this point ⊗ Frugal AI ⊗ Design futures in infrastructure ⊗ The AI revolution in math has arrived ⊗ First Indigenous Group to ban data centers from its land ⊗ A macro array of colorful slime molds
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A peculiar mixture of omniscience and impotence ⊗ Electrostates & physics
No.398 — A scathing LLM YouTuber ⊗ “We ran a business LARP” ⊗ Making Sense of Slow AI ⊗ Solar power and chili peppers ⊗ Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero d’Artagnan
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Geist in the machine ⊗ The prospect of Butlerian Jihad
No.397 — Ending the AI arms race ⊗ Insight and future-fit decisions ⊗ Better AI creative collaborators ⊗ Progressive Paris ⊗ The asteroid ryugu and the building blocks of life
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We’re all living in the “Mirror World” now ⊗ The AI boom is a polycrisis
No.396 — Tough week for Zuck ⊗ Learning in Motion ⊗ The people pushing back on AI ⊗ A wind-powered tumbleweed ⊗ Books, plants and playgrounds
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Habermas and his coffeehouses ⊗ The case for radical solar optimism
No.395 — Possibilities literacy ⊗ Proof ⊗ Energy falling below $100 ⊗ Roots and the meaning of life
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Syndicates of capital ⊗ Three modes of cognition
No.394 — Jobs below the AI ⊗ Seneca Falls Convention · 2048 ⊗ Manufacturing + AI ⊗ The psychological distance to climate disaster ⊗ GPS jamming
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An obscure media theory ⊗ World literacy
No.393 — The future belongs to the creative generalists ⊗ Media’s bad idea with Kalshi ⊗ Reimagining realism ⊗ Labor market impacts of AI ⊗ World record for fusion plasma ⊗ Apocalypse no